The Omnipurpose Restaurant in Dungeon City

Mornings in the dungeon city are quite slow.
People from other cities might scold, ‘How dare you be lazy in the morning when you should be most diligent!’ but.
It can’t be helped, as this is a problem stemming from the structural characteristics of the dungeon city.
It’s because the living patterns of adventurers, who make up the majority of the dungeon city’s population, are irregular.
It’s not that adventurers are lazy, but their work isn’t a regular job to begin with.
Some people hunt monsters for a week straight and then rest for three days in a row.
Some drink all night and head to the dungeon late in the morning.
There are various reasons why it can’t help but be irregular, such as injuries, equipment checks, preparing consumables, recruiting companions, and so on.
It’s natural that the mornings in the dungeon city have become slower compared to other cities to match the tendencies of such adventurers.
“Whew, I really opened it.”
So a restaurant that opens only at lunchtime isn’t particularly unusual.
Although the restaurant itself was indeed unusual.
“Becoming a restaurant owner overnight. In a way, is this fulfilling a dream?”
Jin, who had become the owner and chef of this unusual restaurant, which he decided to name ‘The Omnipurpose Restaurant’ yesterday, had very mixed feelings.
To explain how a possessed person suddenly ended up running a restaurant overnight, we need to go back to last night.
After sending off the unexpected guest, Kyle, the future promising top-tier adventurer.
Jin recalled the thoughts he had put aside while focusing on cooking.
The first and most important problem.
Jin can’t go to the dungeon.
Why? Because he’s scared.
Why? Because he’s a weak modern person.
In the end, the fundamental problem Jin had was that he lacked the courage and confidence to fight risking his life.
He might have found a way to solve this fundamental problem.
Did he find some suspicious drug that clears the mind and numbs fear, or some ultimate martial art technique that would make him invincible once mastered?
Well, it’s not like that.
Kyle, who just left, became the hint.
More precisely, the part about Kyle being an adventurer.
Jin can’t go to the dungeon.
On the other hand, Kyle can go to the dungeon.
Why? Because Kyle is an adventurer and can fight monsters.
“Then, can’t someone who can fight do the fighting instead?”
That’s right. Jin didn’t find a way to fight by himself.
Solving the fundamental problem meant finding a way to go up without fighting!
In other words.
‘Sir Knight, let’s go to the dungeon.’
He decided to take the bus.
If you can’t go to the dungeon yourself. Why not take the bus?
Just like eating cake if there’s no bread, when he realized this simple and clear truth, his stuffy feelings cleared up and peace came to him.
The thought that he had to climb the dungeon himself was all a frame!
Stupid system. Did you think I’d climb the tower obediently?
Since when did I think I wouldn’t take the bus?
Of course, taking the bus isn’t easy either.
“First of all, an ordinary adventurer won’t do.”
Naturally, the bus driver needs to be strong.
Not just strong themselves, but also skilled enough to protect Jin, the passenger on the bus.
They need to be able to fight while protecting Jin, who would clearly be nothing but a burden in combat. This is a non-negotiable premise.
If you’re taking the bus because you don’t want to die, of course you need to fasten your seatbelt, right?
Therefore, an ordinary average adventurer won’t do.
Obviously, such strong adventurers are not easy to meet.
You might ask, can’t you just request one from the adventurers’ guild?
First of all, it’s questionable whether the request would even be delivered, let alone accepted.
Would a Challenger readily agree if an Iron player suddenly asked them to duo and reach Challenger rank 1?
With a burden that’s no different from an abusing-level gold vending machine?
“They’d probably want to smash my skull.”
The bigger problem is that while reaching Challenger might be possible if you pay, top adventurers are already rich, so money alone won’t be enough.
Therefore, to ask the top 0.1% class who can actually break through to the top of the tower, you first need to become acquainted, build connections, and have something to offer in return.
Now do you understand why Jin was so desperate to make an early investment in the blue-chip Kyle?
It was truly an opportunity like finding a golden statue lying on the ground.
Someone might ask if he wants to be carried by someone much younger, a kid not even twenty years old. Don’t you have any pride?
Jin could proudly answer.
‘Yeah~ I don’t care~ If you’re good at the game and good at fighting, you’re my big bro~’
Do you think pro gamers are called ‘brother’ by hairy uncles for no reason?
In the Korean martial arts world where the strong survive and the weak perish, titles are determined solely by tier and skill. Jin was just following the rules.
You say I’m talking nonsense? Then what’s your tier?
Considering that this was originally a game world, Kyle is good at both, so it’s not wrong to call him big brother, or even ‘Kyle hyung-nim’.
Anyway, for these reasons, Jin opened the restaurant.
It’s called the ‘Delicious Restaurant Strategy’.
If he sells delicious food cheaply and becomes famous as a great restaurant, won’t adventurers who could be drivers or other influential guests come?
‘I’ll build connections by making these guests regulars, and help them or create debts using information from the game.’
Essentially, it’s not much different from what he did with Kyle yesterday.
Just scaling it up a bit and changing it to official business.
He wasn’t too worried about whether he could succeed as a famous restaurant, which was the premise of the strategy.
It wasn’t baseless confidence, but Jin believed that with the trinity of his cooking skills, skill corrections, and modern ingredients and recipes, it was certainly possible.
What would he do if it didn’t work? This was the best he could do right now.
‘Whether it becomes porridge or rice, I’ll give it a try.’
With such determination, the restaurant business started today.
“Should I start with promotion first?”
It’s good that he started ambitiously, but there’s a big problem right away.
People don’t know that the restaurant has opened!
Of course, it’s natural since it hasn’t even been a day since he was possessed and the base appeared here.
Kyle’s perfectly timed entry was an impossibly lucky timing.
‘Should I make flyers and distribute them?’
First, he needs to let people know that this restaurant has opened, whether customers come or not.
But is that allowed? Won’t he get arrested for illegal activity? Is there even a place that would make flyers for him?
As he was about to continue his chain of worries.
Ding-a-ling-
“Hello, is this a restaurant… Oh my, it’s cool?”
“Yes, it’s a restaurant! Welcome!”
Even without promotion, a customer came on their own.

The receptionist job at the adventurers’ guild is much more demanding than it looks.
“What’s the problem with this?! I did exactly what the request said!”
“As I said, this flower and this flower look similar but they’re different.”
“There’s hardly any difference! Just quickly process the request completion!”
Dealing with ignorant troublemakers is a daily occurrence.
“Don’t cut in line secretly over there, please line up properly!”
If you don’t control the line and discourage cutting every 10 minutes, it becomes unmanageable.
“You’re quite cute, how about having the honor of dining with C-rank adventurer Bald after work…”
“Ahaha… I’m sorry.”
You have to use mental energy to reject flirtations that come several times a day.
“You’re telling me not to cause a disturbance? Want me to show you what a real disturbance is? Huh?”
Sometimes you’re even subjected to threats.
All sorts of paperwork, writing on behalf of illiterate adventurers, mediating between adventurers, managing request boards – these are just miscellaneous tasks.
If you experience such a hard schedule every day.
‘I really want to quit…’
In short, stress builds up.
Seria, the popular receptionist in charge of window D at the adventurers’ guild in the dungeon city, felt the same way.
Seria, a semi-veteran receptionist entering her 5th year, had been desperately thinking about retirement lately.
This ridiculous workplace was always new.
Always new troublemakers popped up to torment Seria.
It was a place where incidents that shattered such naive thoughts like ‘It should get easier around now, right?’ occurred frequently.
For example, last week, when she urged an unscrupulous client to pay overdue request fees.
Holding a grudge for that, they paid the request fee with tens of thousands of coins only.
Moreover, the coins were a mix of different types, and they were covered here and there with the sticky body fluids of monsters.
‘Oh my, this is all the money I have right now~ According to the regulations, as long as payment is made, the method doesn’t matter, right?’
Her stomach turned at their mocking sneer, but as they said, it was within the allowed range of regulations, so she had no choice but to accept it.
In the end, it took a full day for three staff members, including Seria, to clean and sort them.
If there was any consolation, it was that the regulations regarding payment methods were improved to prevent such incidents from happening again.
Even after experiencing such things, receptionists always have to deal with troublemakers with a smile.
So stress can’t be released and keeps accumulating.
Therefore, to maintain work as a receptionist, you need to relieve this stress separately.
‘I must eat something delicious today!’
For Seria, that was gastronomy.
When stress builds up to the point where it’s unbearable, she relieves stress by eating delicious food, even if it’s a bit extravagant.
“I wonder if this is the restaurant Kyle mentioned?”
The reason Seria was standing in front of an unfamiliar restaurant now was for the same reason.
She came to check out a restaurant that was said to serve incredibly delicious food.
There was a minor incident where her colleagues shouted “Kieeek Traitor!!!” when they saw Seria escaping the hellish guild early by taking a half day off, but.
They too are colleagues sharing the same pain.
They would understand that Seria leaving early wasn’t escaping to save herself alone, but part of the work process for long-term efficiency improvement through stress relief.
Or well, can’t be helped. If they’re upset, they should have taken a half day off too.
‘But will it really be that delicious? I wonder if Kyle exaggerated…’
She came because Kyle, whom she had become close to like a younger brother while volunteering at the orphanage, recommended it, but honestly, she didn’t have high expectations.
It’s a bit awkward to say this, but the food situation at the orphanage isn’t exceptionally good.
It’s not overflowing with abundance, and since it’s an orphanage run by the temple, there’s a basic frugality to it.
Given that Kyle is from such an orphanage, mightn’t he have felt exaggeratedly delicious even with just moderately good food?
‘The exterior is certainly neat and sophisticated to a degree that doesn’t fit the street.’
This level would be considered quite high-end even on the central street.
I don’t know why such a building is in this alley though.
“Sigh, if I just keep hesitating, lunch time will pass.”
Can’t be helped. Having come this far, I had no choice but to trust Kyle and go in.
Ding-a-ling-
“Hello, is this a restaurant… Oh my, it’s cool?”
Surprised by the cold air she felt upon opening the door and entering, Seria completely forgot her previous thoughts.
It seemed like there really was something here!